Never mind that this brief account of Senator Alexander's career is incredibly misleading; Alexander joined other Republicans in calling for the elimination of the Department of Education in the mid-1990s, and has long pushed for a smaller federal footprint in education. (educationnext.org)
Former department Assistant Secretary Carmel Martin wrote, some might say incongruously, that ESSA wasn't a departure because Duncan «had actually shrank the federal footprint in education.» (educationnext.org)
Reflecting a seismic shift in attitudes toward the federal footprint in education, states and districts are getting broad flexibility when it comes to how they measure school and student progress. (edweek.org)